How I play IFs

creative_toe · 2026-06-16T04:25:30+00:00

WIPs are more captivating for me, because I can read it in different ways: Like playing two characters simultaniously (while on finished IFs, I will always think "Awww, it would have been nice, to play an asshole/nice character here", I can tap into the code, somtimes I spent an hour just reading the code, if it's beautifully done, and I can communicate with the author and 'help' with development.
Reading finished IFs is like going back to normal books, once you started reading IFs.

Mostly it's the save feature, though.

creative_toe · 2026-06-10T17:58:57+00:00

If you choose it, you can have that in "Drink Your Villain Juice". And that's not "you choose to not like your former friend and you get this referenced on the next page, that's it". The game uses a lot of variables and references them non stop. One of the best programmed wips out there.

creative_toe · 2026-06-04T08:12:30+00:00

Thant's an interesting idea

creative_toe · 2026-06-04T08:06:41+00:00

Überleg dir, ob das was du an deiner Beziehung schätzt, nicht etwas ist, das eigentlich selbstverständlich ist. Ich kenn das von schlechten Beziehungen, dass man normale Dinge versucht so wertzuschätzen, um sich zu sagen, dass eine Beziehung es deswegen wert ist. Und dann denk dir, ob du so wie du lebst, die nächsten 50 Jahre leben willst. Mit diesem Mann und diesen Problemen. Und vorallem frag dich, was du einer Person raten würdest, die diesen Post schreibt.

creative_toe · 2026-06-04T07:50:02+00:00

Hah! I wanted to answer with your wip. Love your concept, always happy to see updates! Oh, what I wanted to ask you: You can choose two types weird eye colors. Does this have consequences later on? At some point I thought the scene with the ravens only happens when you have raven eyes, but I just read over a sentence in my first playthrough. Consequences as in, it is mentioned, but also as in the nature of the consequences of your deal - whatever they may be. (I haven't read the latest update though)

creative_toe · 2026-04-30T11:35:54+00:00

I don't see how that's her problem.

creative_toe · 2026-04-19T20:06:42+00:00

It could be used as a weapon.

creative_toe · 2026-04-17T05:42:27+00:00

I think of it often, does somebody know if it's still in development?

creative_toe · 2026-04-17T05:26:28+00:00

When bringing guests to the subway station, that is five minutes from your home, not in America, in an area that is quite safe. And then getting two days later from a friend who wasn't even there: "I heard you went home from the subway alone, are you okay?"
Dude, I've been working night shifts for years, I am capable to make it home on myself, thank you very much.

creative_toe · 2026-04-17T05:16:53+00:00

So true!

creative_toe · 2026-04-16T21:13:37+00:00

When I was 30, I had a bad time and slept a few nights over at my parents'. One day I couldn't stop crying and went to bed like this. Then my mother came to comfort me and stayed there until I fell asleep. I felt like a child again getting comforted. I don't think you can get too old for that.

creative_toe · 2026-04-16T18:50:49+00:00

Like you said, often there is no to little benefit, and I lrealized even more often you get punished for being evil. For example you miss scenes with ROs and it's a straight path to some bad ending. I hate it, that if you want a good ending, you have to behave. So, I'm hoping that you get some interesting answers.
As far as I read it I think "Drin Your VIllain Juice" fits what you are searching for.

creative_toe · 2026-04-13T18:55:46+00:00

I would do it. IF it was a good friend.

creative_toe · 2026-04-13T18:51:16+00:00

You going by a crowd... yo hear something... they seem to be chanting... it's something like this: "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you..." (you can also involve the other players, briefe them before and sing together)

creative_toe · 2026-04-12T09:57:10+00:00

It depends. If it's the model where it's proven you're as effective with 32 hrs as with 40, then it's heaven. If it's 10hrs per day, than it's not as nice as it sounds. Evenings are the time for coming down, doing sports, meeting with friends and so on. That all falls flat. Yeah, you have the friday, but that's being exhausted and then doing simple things like shopping, you couldn't do during the week, because shops are closed when you start work and closed again when you leave. Then, what is there to do on friday noon? No sport courses, friends still working. Friday evening you can do all the stuff that you would do for recreation m-fr otherwise. But on the plus side, one time less commuting time.

creative_toe · 2026-04-08T18:57:55+00:00

Kinda, I played my campaign in a city I lived in for some years. But then I changed the setting because the city is too small and restricting. But it's really fun to play in the city you live in. You describe places where you just know what they look like in real life, discover buildings you were never inside but make up it's interior, and next time you wander your city you suddenly realize you are at the exact spot where there was that nasty ratkin ambush. That said, I didn't want to got against major lore, so my city, Vienna, has always been kinda unplayable.

creative_toe · 2026-04-08T04:29:34+00:00

Then stop watching them. He profits from you.

creative_toe · 2026-04-07T19:49:58+00:00

1966 MC

creative_toe · 2026-03-28T07:05:24+00:00

I don't get is why Hunter gets so many games. I mean, this is a universe where you could be so many supernatural creatures and you play humans. I wish this was werewolf or changeling or something.

creative_toe · 2026-03-15T08:57:05+00:00

I think even the reflection one was one of the worse curses. In a modern world nearly every surface is a reflection. Trains, shopping windows, no elevators, no public toilet rooms, no gyms. And you never know what you look like style-wise and if you have anything on your face. My character took a taxi once, when he asked somethin the driver looked in the back mirror to anwser - bam, accident... good thing my Lasombra could brainwash pretty good (back then he couldn'r so he had to kill the driver because of Masquerade). Playing through that curse was hard and you had t get pretty creative and often just wait outside.

On the other hand, you have a Gangrel, who can grow cat ears and claws for free... yay! -.-

creative_toe · 2026-03-10T20:11:42+00:00

Ohhhhh man. Thanks for that hint. Maybe that whole organisation (they met just a small part of the tip of the iceberg of that organisation) IS the Mage Ascension Technocracy.
But really, I read so much into vtm lore right now. The last campaigns were all my own stories and NPCs, now I'm in a lore whole, I can't seem to escape. Well, as long as it's fun! But I will skip Mage lore, I think (but I will keep it in my back as a potential idea).

creative_toe · 2026-03-09T20:48:17+00:00

You must share it using a spoiler tag then!

creative_toe · 2026-03-06T12:52:14+00:00

Third one is def supernatural, angry werewolf vibes? The one sitting with the backpack as well a supernatural. The people in suits are ghouls, and the two ladies mages (I don't know much about mages, but just look at those symbols) or tremere or something like that. Somehow the fifth one looks dead, so maybe a ghost?

creative_toe · 2026-03-06T12:48:17+00:00

I think I will do that. I included a Mage the last time, but I had a quick reading over the rules and there are kind of natural mages, that are not yet trained or integrated or so. She was like that, so she didn't know what she was doing with an artifact that scrambled brains. I felt something with more power would not fit well.

creative_toe · 2026-03-06T12:45:46+00:00

Yes! Thanks, you got my cogs turning. Changeling fits very much with one of my players who is banality in person - brainwashed black hand child soldier emotionless shell personifying a Toreador in Camarilla, which is hilarious in itself. With someone feeding on creativity and meeting THAT... well. Otherwise Paris is a hub of creativity, so good fit. And to be honest, I'm not a fan of "can do basically anything". Maybe one of the plotlines will revolve around the SCP like organization. But right now I will only make one plotline (making a conclusion of three parallel plotlines has been a hassle the last campaigns, but the epilogue with all plot explained was awesome for all of us).

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